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We ask patients — what is your pain from 0 to 10? This gives the impression that the goal of health care is to get suffering to zero. But purpose of health care isn’t to eliminate all suffering.
8/12/19
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By Greg Erlandson
More and more people are telling me that they just can't take the news anymore. Like me, they find it overwhelmingly depressing.
8/12/19
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By Ann M. Augherton
I love to share a good story. I guess that’s why I became a journalist. My story-telling, often done while standing in the newsroom, is a bit, well … legendary.
8/12/19
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By Carol Glatz
Pope Francis hung a bright red sign on his home-office door two summers ago that reads, "No Complaining Allowed."
8/7/19
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By Elizabeth Foss
At the beginning of August I usually tell myself that it’s still summer, that an entire month — a long month at that — still remains, that there is still time to rest. And even as I think the words, the spaces on the calendar begin to fill. The early autumn hustle starts to encroach on the last days of heat and humidity, and I see the opportunity to really rest slip past us for another season.
8/7/19
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Jesus Christ offers you and me the indescribable gift of entering this kingdom through the sacrament of confession. But first, we must take the lead of my 3-year-old niece and “process” our own disobedience and dislike of the commandments, which seem to so restrain our precious freedom.
8/5/19
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By Fr. William P. Saunders
Our Lord warns us to guard against all greed; one’s life does not consist of possessions. Greed is the inordinate desire and preoccupation with having more wealth or possessions. The accumulation leads to a sense of self-sufficiency, complacency toward others and independence of God. Notice the operative word throughout the parable is “I”: “I have a great harvest, I need bigger storage bins, I have all I need for years, I will eat, drink and be merry.” Sadly, the greedy person never seems to have enough. For good reason, St. Paul warned of “the greed that is idolatry.”
8/1/19
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By Christina Capecchi
Theodor Jr. could envision the future. A secure, prosperous one. A business he could hand down to his 15-year-old son. A proud legacy.
7/31/19
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By Fr. James C. Hudgins
Prudent people take great pains to care for their physical well-being, and turn to a medical doctor at the first sign of illness. But how many people recognize that there is such a thing as spiritual health?
7/25/19
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The end of time
For a worldly heart, fear might be the response to the final appearance of God, how should a Christian heart respond? The Lord wishes us to be prepared and watchful, but does he want to find us cowering in fear when he returns?